Dahaz language

Koman
Kāman, Kāman ëbëm Dahaz
Pronunciation	/'kɒman‿əβəm/
Region	Vaniua
Ethnicity	Koman people
Native speakers	40 million  (2015-2017)
Language family	Vaniuan Eastern Vaniuan Koman
Early forms:	Proto-Vaniuan Proto-Eastern Vaniuan Kalkali Middle Koman Classical Koman Koman
Dialects	Torosh, Shereva and Jovaic dialects
Writing system	Vaniuan script, Mahavic script
Official status
Official language in	Khara-Dahaz
Regulated by	Imperial Lenguistic Council
CWS code	DAD
Dark blue = majority; light blue = minority

Koman (Kāman, /'kɒman‿əβəm/) is a Vaniuan language spoken in Khara-Dahaz. It has 40 million native speakers and is mainly spoken by the Koman people in Khara-Dahaz and elsewhere in Vaniu. Koman belongs to the Eastern Vaniuan branch of the Vaniuan language family. Main influences can be attributed to Mahavic languages and Bothanian with some loanwords mainly of Saopyulieg and Sotanese origin. The most noticeable distinctions between Koman and other Vaniuan languages is the large corpus of Mahavic loanwords and lack of gender which is only seen in certain pronouns.

Name

The language itself is natively known as Dahaz avän, Kharadahaz or simply Dahaz, pronounced /'daʷhaβæ/, /xɑra'daʷha/, /'daʷha/ accordingly.

History

The first records of the earliest form of the language can be traced back to the 7th century where inscriptions in stone pillars were found in the eastern region of the northern Vaniuan steppes in the former Dahaz Tabazate, a remaining tribe of the Kali people who settled along the Tama river and consecutively assimilated large portions of Mahavic peoples. The first known dynasty in the region was that of the Kalkali Tabazate in the 10th - 12th centuries who spoke a variation of the Proto-Eastern Vaniuan language, who would later fall to strong Mahavic influences.

Dahaz is considered as the direct descendant of the later form of the Kalkali language, known as Middle Dahaz, proved to be highly affected by foreign influences deforming its purity. Middle Dahaz served as the Vaniuan literary language, for the later state of the Great Horde and the Khara-Dahaz state, replacing the Golden speech which was brought by Mahavic peoples as a later form of the Jovic languages.

Phonology

Consonants

The following tables lists the consonants and vowels of the standard Koshajva dialect. The consonants enclosed in parentheses are considered as allophones.

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Dental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Labio-velar	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal	m			n					ŋ
Plosive	p b			t d					k g	q
Fricative	β	θ	ð	s z	ʒ	ʂ				ʁ	h
Affricate
Approximant								j	w
Rhotic				r
Lateral app.				l

Vowels

	Front	Near-front	Central	Near-back	Back
Close	i (i:) y				ɯ u (u:)
Near-close
Close-mid	e				o (o:)
Mid			ə
Open-mid
Near-open	æ
Open	a				ɒ